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WILLIAM SHATNER:
A giant, hairy beast

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that walks on two legs.

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A ferocious killer wolf

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with a taste for human flesh.

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And a red-eyed,
nocturnal bird of prey

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that is believed to be
a harbinger of doom.

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Throughout the world,
there have been

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countless sightings
of bizarre creatures

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that, based on
eyewitness accounts,

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can only be described
as monsters.

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Fearsome, grotesque beasts

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that cannot be explained
by science.

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Is it possible that there
really are terrifying monsters

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lurking in the shadows
of our planet?

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Well, that is what
we’ll try and find out.

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SHATNER:
Bigfoot researcher
Matt Moneymaker and a colleague

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are investigating
reported Bigfoot sightings

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in a wooded area
near the town of Kent.

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After spending years
pursuing Bigfoot in hopes

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of seeing one himself,
Matt is eager to find out

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whether there really is
a giant creature in these woods.

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We were staked out along a road.

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The guy I was with
was about 60 feet away.

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And at about 2:30 a.m.,

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something comes
walking down the road.

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I see something.

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He sees it first
through night vision.

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SHATNER:
Matt rushes over to investigate

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and is stopped dead in
his tracks by the sound of...

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(growling)

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...inhuman growling.

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MATT MONEYMAKER:
This thing steps out,

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a very big, tall,
hair-covered thing...

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(roaring)

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...standing out there
growling at me.

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When you’ve got something
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you could see it well enough
to know that must be a Bigfoot.

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So I just kind of
backed up and walked away.

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(growling)

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I was pretty happy at
that point, because I’m thinking

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if this one’s going
to do that reliably,

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then this is a place
that we’re going to get

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some video footage of them,

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if we’re coming here
with the right kind of gear.

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SHATNER:
But when Matt returned
with camera equipment

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to document the encounter,

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the creature had vanished.

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Although Matt was not able
to photograph the large,

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hairy beast that he witnessed,

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he remains convinced
that what he saw

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was, in fact, Bigfoot.

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It’s one of those things
that sounds so over the top,

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but after I had
a face-to-face encounter,

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I knew it was
exactly the same thing

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that all the witnesses
around there had described.

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SHATNER:
The encounter inspired
Matt to found

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the Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization, or BFRO.

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MONEYMAKER:
The roots of it are people
who were sharing information.

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We were sharing
sighting reports mainly

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from different parts
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And I came up
with the idea that--

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why don’t we put all these
into a website?

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You know, sort it
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so people can look up reports.

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And when we did that,
it worked really well.

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Lots of people
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SHATNER:
According to the BFRO,
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3,500 credible
Bigfoot sightings since 1960.

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Although science has yet
to prove the existence

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of the legendary man-beast,

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that hasn’t stopped Bigfoot

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from becoming
a full-fledged phenomenon.

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CHRIS BADER:
Bigfoot is literally everywhere.

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There are Bigfoot stories
in Nevada.

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There are Bigfoot stories
in Nebraska, Florida, Texas.

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Literally every part
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has its own stories
and legends of Bigfoot.

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It’s likely wherever
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you are within
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that purportedly has a Bigfoot.

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SHATNER:
If these sightings are
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then what exactly is Bigfoot?

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And how did this
phenomenon begin?

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(crunching steps)

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TOK THOMPSON:
Bigfoot is generally reported

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to be a very large, very furry,
uh, hominid creature.

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Something like a person, uh,
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Seen very often
remotely in the forest.

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And with various stories about
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that really are
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in many, many communities in
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Before 1958, people
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But it was in 1958
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guys building a road
found footprints

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around their gear when they
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And a guy named Jerry Crew
made plaster footprints

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of these tracks
and showed them to a reporter

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in Eureka,
and they dubbed it Bigfoot.

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That was where
the name first originated

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and got into
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SHATNER: Photos of Jerry Crew’s
cast of giant footprints

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made headlines
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Many Americans came
to believe that a tall,

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bipedal, apelike creature roamed

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the forests
of the Pacific Northwest.

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I grew up in Washington State

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where it’s hard to
underestimate Bigfoot’s power.

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Bigfoot is the mascot
of different companies.

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Bigfoot is all over billboards.

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As a young boy
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I fully believed
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SHATNER:
In 1967, interest
in Bigfoot surged

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when an investigator
named Roger Patterson

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captured incredible footage

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of a creature that matched
the description of Bigfoot

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near Bluff Creek
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(growling)

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Patterson’s film
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but skeptics claimed

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that it had to be a man

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in a monkey suit.

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One of the issues when it comes
to people believing

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in Bigfoot existing is,
let’s face it,

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mainstream sciences
shun away from this topic.

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However, amateur researchers
are trying to pick up the slack,

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bridge that gap between
amateur and mainstream science.

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SHATNER:
Bigfoot researchers claim
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of Bigfoot sightings are sincere

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and that hoaxes represent only
a small fraction of reports.

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They also point out that stories

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of Bigfoot-like animals
are not merely a recent fad.

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Believe it or not,
more than 3,000 years ago,

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the ancient Babylonians
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of a creature that sounds
an awful lot like Bigfoot.

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Except they called it Enkidu.

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Enkidu is a hairy, wild

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man-creature
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and he’s fearsome,
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to defend this wild territory
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The king, Gilgamesh,
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basically-- best friends.

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So, this king becomes
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through his relationship
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that has shown him
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between humanity and wildness.

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SHATNER:
Since that time, descriptions
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half-human, half-ape beasts,

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have popped up throughout
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
In the Caucasus, there was
something called the Alma

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that was a big monster,
a nature creature.

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In Australia, there’s
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which they call it a Yowie.

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There is the Yeti
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So there are local variations,

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but the story is more
or less the same:

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very big, seemingly animallike.

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Or is it human
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There’s the point.

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SHATNER:
In North America, there are
Native American legends

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that go back centuries,

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long before the discoveries
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or Roger Patterson.

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LYNNE McNEILL:
We know that Sasquatch,
the preeminent Bigfoot creature

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that we have
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located in
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that very word, Sasquatch,
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that means wild man
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YOUNG:
The natives of the Northwest say

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that there are creatures that
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And can speak in their language.

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TODD NEISS:
I found in speaking
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that they don’t describe them
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They call them the First Ones
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These were the tribe that was
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Could Bigfoot be one
of man’s ancient ancestors?

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According to many cultures
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it’s a distinct possibility.

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And if Bigfoot does exist,
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that we might share our world
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Perhaps a clue
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where legend has it
that a vicious monster

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prowls the night
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for blood.

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SHATNER:
After purchasing
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from a neighboring ranch,
Phylis Canion makes a series

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of gruesome discoveries
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I brought the chickens home, and
I had them for about two weeks.

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And I went outside, and one
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What makes it unusual

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is the chicken
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any predator would have taken
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SHATNER:
Over the next few weeks,
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of 27 more of her chickens,

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each one killed in
the same inexplicable fashion.

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Every one of them had been
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the feathers missing,
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to be no blood on the ground.

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So, that told me then
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was not interested in the meat
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And when I was talking to
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they all immediately said,
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"that’s the behavior
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It’s going to kill the animal
and suck the blood."

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SHATNER:
"Chupacabra."

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To those who claim
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it is a fearsome monster.

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Chupacabra means "goat sucker."

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And it’s a really
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Some people say it looks
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strange hybrid-like dog.

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The continental
North American chupacabra, uh,

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is a four-legged,
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about the size of a dog,
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with a bluish-gray
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They also display a number
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Oftentimes, their limbs
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So they’re very grotesque,
odd, weird-looking animals.

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Certain that what was preying
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was not a coyote
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Phylis began to consider whether
it might be a chupacabra.

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And then one morning,
she got her answer.

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One Saturday morning,
I got a very early call, 7:00.

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My neighbor rancher called
and said, "Oh, my gosh.

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"The strangest animal
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in front of the Canion Ranch."

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So, I got in the truck, drove
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and I took a 50-pound feed sack

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and I cut it in half
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and I laid the animal on it
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a perspective
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and this had no hair on it
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that the skin
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of skin disorder
from mange or anything else.

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It just did not have
any hair on it at all.

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SHATNER:
Phylis sent tissue samples

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from the dead creature
out for analysis.

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After waiting expectantly
for weeks,

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she was surprised
by the results.

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So, when they called me,
they said,

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"Well, it’s coyote
on the maternal side

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and Mexican wolf
on the paternal."

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The DNA tests
indicating that the...

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the animal was a...
was a hybrid, essentially,

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between a Mexican wolf
and a coyote

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is a little surprising
in the fact

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that those species
don’t typically hybridize.

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But it’s not
entirely impossible.

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We do know that the ranges
of those two species do overlap

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in Arizona and Texas
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so it’s at least
physically possible

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that they could encounter
each other, um, to form hybrids.

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SHATNER:
With such conclusive
DNA results,

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many considered the case closed.

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But according to Phylis,

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something was not
quite adding up.

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The mystery of the whole thing

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was the manner in which
every chicken was killed.

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It would suck
all of the blood out.

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So, we know that it’s
coyote and Mexican wolf,

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but neither of those animals
suck blood.

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So, even though this animal
has that DNA, what is it?

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Why would it have that behavior?

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When the taxidermist
mounted it for me,

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he had to get a coyote mold
and a wolf mold,

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and blend them together
to make the hide fit.

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The tail is longer than
a wolf tail or a coyote tail.

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The neck, the ears,
everything was so extreme.

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It took him forever
to get it mounted.

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We had about 13
different specialists

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from around the world
come and look at it.

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And to date, they’ve all left
scratching their head

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like the day they came in,

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because they just cannot
figure it out as well.

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SHATNER:
If they really exist,

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are chupacabra merely the result
of natural selection gone wrong?

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Or could this grotesque monster

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be the result of
not natural causes

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but manmade ones?

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There are some
who believe the answer

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is a disturbing yes.

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Through the course
of my research

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on the Texas chupacabras,

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I found a direct correlation
between sightings

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on Phylis Canion’s property
and elsewhere,

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and coal-burning power plants.

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Coal-burning power plants,

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in fact, emit huge amounts
of sulfur dioxide

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and other hard metals
like lead into the atmosphere.

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And in recent studies,
scientists have found

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that sulfur dioxide
is, in fact, a mutagen.

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It altered the cellular makeup
or genetic makeup

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of laboratory mice.

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So, in fact, this pollution
could be having

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a similar effect on these
Texas coyotes or other canids.

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Chemicals in the environment

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can absolutely cause mutations
to animals in-in the wild.

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We saw this in Minnesota
when a classroom

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out on a field trip
discovered a pond

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with frogs that had
extra legs or missing limbs

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or body features
in the wrong position.

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And these were most likely
caused by some type

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of environmental contaminant.

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There is actually
a type of chupacabra

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that’s been reported
from parts of Puerto Rico.

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The Puerto Rican chupacabra
is described as about

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three and a half
to five feet tall,

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standing on two legs,
fangs, claws,

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and strangely a row of spikes
going down its back.

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Why are there so many different
versions of the chupacabra,

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and why are they so radically
different-looking

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in terms of
the Puerto Rican version

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versus the North American
version versus other versions?

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So, in fact, pollution
could be having

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a similar effect to create
all types of strange creatures.

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Is the chupacabra
a genetically mutated animal

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that evolved as a result
of industrial pollution?

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Perhaps, but then again,

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monsters have been reported
for centuries,

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long before the onset
of modern civilization.

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For instance,
in 18th-century France,

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more than 100 people fell victim

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to a ravenous, wolflike creature
that was known

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as the Beast of Gévaudan.

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SHATNER:
On a warm summer morning
in this farming region

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of south-central France,

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14-year-old Jeanne Boulet

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leaves home to tend
her flock of sheep.

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By sundown, she’s dead.

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-(growling)
-(roaring)

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(screaming)

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Murdered by a mysterious animal

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that reportedly
mutilated her body,

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severed her head
and ripped out her heart.

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Jeanne Boulet was the first
documented casualty

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of a monster that
many people believed

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was roaming around
south-central France

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beginning in
the late spring of 1764.

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By the end of September,

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another ten or so casualties,
however, had appeared.

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GERHARD:
La Bête du Gévaudan, also known
as the Beast of Gévaudan,

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was a mysterious
wolflike creature

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which mounted
a murderous rampage

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over a three-year span
within the 18th century.

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The Beast frequently attacked
women and young children

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who had been assigned the task

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of herding sheep and cattle
in remote mountainous meadows.

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And in many cases,

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they were rather defenseless
and vulnerable.

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(growling)

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SHATNER:
Between 1764 and 1767,

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the so-called Beast of Gévaudan

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terrorized the
Margeride Mountain region

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of southern France.

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According to historical records,

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more than 100 people
were brutally killed.

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SMITH:
The Beast of the Gévaudan’s
ravages

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did incite panic
among the people.

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And we know this largely
from evidence from journalists

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and others who were
commenting about

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the activities of the Beast.

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By early 1765,
newspapers all across France,

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and indeed all across
Europe and in America,

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were reporting on
the Beast of the Gévaudan.

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His exploits, the various
hunts for the Beast,

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the various mysteries
surrounding it,

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which is why so many people
were transfixed by this story.

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(crackling)

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GERHARD:
There were many attempts
to hunt down the Beast.

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People in the Gévaudan region
typically did not own guns,

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but there were posses formed.

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Groups that would go out
in the woods and literally

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beat the brush with pitchforks,

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sticks, knives, whatever types
of weapons were available.

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However, the hunt for
the Beast really ramped up

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when King Louis XV
became involved.

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He brought in a professional
wolf hunter named d’Enneval,

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who allegedly killed
over 100 wolves,

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but the killing
still did not end.

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SHATNER:
According to multiple reports,
the beast resembled a wolf

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but was unlike any canine
that was known to man.

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GERHARD:
Many of the local villagers
noted as saying it resembles

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a very large wolf,
but the Beast of Gévaudan

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attacked and killed people

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in a nature that was
very unlike a wolf.

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(growling)

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-The nature of these attacks...
-(howling)

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00:21:31,749 --> 00:21:33,499
...the way that this thing
was decapitating people...

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00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:35,126
-(roaring)
-(screaming)

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...disemboweling people,

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this was something
completely different.

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SMITH:
One of the reasons this
becomes such a magnetic story,

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it’s because there were
always new strange stories

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00:21:46,347 --> 00:21:47,887
about the Beast’s behavior,

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00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:50,345
its appearance,
its strange abilities.

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The peasants on the ground
were describing it as

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having the ability
to walk on its hind legs,

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glowing eyes,
and having five or six talons

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rather than four.

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00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:08,827
They didn’t use
the word "werewolf."

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They used descriptions
of this creature

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00:22:11,539 --> 00:22:12,959
that made it easy to believe

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00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,000
that this could indeed
be a werewolf.

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GERHARD:
The Beast of Gévaudan
is one of France’s

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most enduring
and popular mysteries.

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There are museums.

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There are statues.

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There are songs.
There are stories.

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This was like
a real-life nightmare.

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To this day, the Beast
of Gévaudan is celebrated

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in French culture and it really
has a profound effect on people.

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SHATNER:
The descriptions of the Beast
were so terrifying

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that it’s not surprising
locals thought

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it was some kind
of supernatural monster.

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But there were
scientists at the time

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who proposed a different theory.

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SMITH:
Among the many hypotheses
that emerged

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was that the beast
might be an African hyena.

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The hyena was this
very mysterious creature

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that lots of naturalists
and others wrote about

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in the 1750s and ’60s.

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The general description
of the Beast of Gévaudan

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was a wolflike creature
but bigger,

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the size of a mule
or a calf, perhaps.

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It had a large head.

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It had a long muzzle,
lined with razor-sharp teeth.

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Pointy ears.

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A long tail with
a tuft of fur on the end.

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The coat of fur was
typically described

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as a reddish-brown or gray,

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with a black stripe running down
the back and a white breast.

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00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:46,550
These are hyena-like
characteristics.

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CORBIN MAXEY:
Back in the day, kings
and even people of status

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had exotic pets,
they had exotic zoos.

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Who’s to say that
a hyena didn’t escape?

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If you take a look
at the victims,

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their chest cavities torn apart,

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their limbs missing,
their heads decapitated,

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this all resembles
attacks of a hyena.

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SHATNER:
Could the Beast of Gévaudan have
been an escaped African hyena?

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00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:16,199
Perhaps.

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(roaring)

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00:24:18,332 --> 00:24:21,922
But while that theory
may make sense,

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the best clue
scientists have today

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about the Beast’s identity

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was obtained on the day
it was reportedly killed.

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The Beast’s reign of terror
ended on June 19, 1767,

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00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:40,056
when a local hunter
named Jean Chastel

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felled the monster with
one shot of a silver bullet.

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(gunshot)

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♪ ♪

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After Chastel shot
this strange creature,

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00:24:50,698 --> 00:24:53,278
the killings actually stopped,
so everyone was in agreement

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00:24:53,367 --> 00:24:55,407
that-that he had actually
killed the beast.

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♪ ♪

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A surgeon who conducted
an autopsy determined

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that while it resembled
a wolf, it was not a wolf.

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00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,417
And in fact,
it possessed 40 teeth

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compared to a wolf’s 42 teeth,
which is quite strange.

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♪ ♪

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The Beast’s remains
were paraded around

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the Gévaudan region
for weeks thereafter.

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And by the time
the carcass was taken

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to the Palace of Versailles
and presented to King Louis XV,

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it was so smelly
that he immediately demanded

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that it be removed
from the palace.

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00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:31,949
And to this day,
nobody knows what happened

483
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to those remains--
they vanished.

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♪ ♪

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Ultimately,
while some people feel

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the Beast of Gévaudan may have
been a supernatural phenomenon,

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the deaths, the occurrences
documented, they’re real.

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And the Beast of Gévaudan
remains a great mystery.

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(growling)

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Was the Beast of Gévaudan
a common wolf

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or something
far more terrifying?

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Either way, the people
of France believed

493
00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:06,357
that the Beast needed
to be hunted down and killed.

494
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,860
But fighting back
against monsters

495
00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:10,532
may not always be an option.

496
00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:12,361
In fact, there have been reports

497
00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:17,236
of another wolflike creature,
in Utah.

498
00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:20,496
One that is so fearsome
and so powerful

499
00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:23,421
that not even bullets
can stop it.

500
00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:36,970
SHATNER:
Here on 512 acres of rugged land

501
00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:39,886
lies a remote cattle ranch.

502
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:44,980
But according to local legend,
this desert landscape

503
00:26:45,062 --> 00:26:50,232
is also home to a creature
of unspeakable evil.

504
00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:51,567
(snarling)

505
00:26:51,652 --> 00:26:55,322
A creature known
as the Skinwalker.

506
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,490
SKINNER:
A Skinwalker is a shape-shifter.

507
00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:03,158
It can become many things:
a fox, a coyote, a wolf.

508
00:27:04,331 --> 00:27:07,831
There are these recorded stories
of bipedal creatures

509
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,750
that are walking around
with wolflike heads.

510
00:27:10,838 --> 00:27:13,048
The locals on the reservation,
they won’t talk about it

511
00:27:13,173 --> 00:27:15,683
because even mentioning
the name of the Skinwalker

512
00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:17,549
invites these things in.

513
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:19,678
♪ ♪

514
00:27:20,848 --> 00:27:22,558
SHATNER:
Skinwalkers.

515
00:27:22,683 --> 00:27:24,353
Shape-shifting werewolves

516
00:27:24,434 --> 00:27:27,774
who dwell not in remote
forests of Eastern Europe

517
00:27:27,855 --> 00:27:32,155
but in the remote desert
regions of North America.

518
00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:41,446
Experienced ranch hands
Terry and Gwen Sherman

519
00:27:41,535 --> 00:27:44,295
purchased the ranch
and the surrounding area.

520
00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:46,961
Almost immediately, they find
themselves face-to-face

521
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,710
with something they would
later describe as pure evil.

522
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:55,716
One day, Terry had gone up to
check on his cattle and noticed

523
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,219
this extremely large,
what appeared to be a wolf

524
00:27:58,302 --> 00:27:59,972
walking around on his property.

525
00:28:00,053 --> 00:28:01,433
(snarling)

526
00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:03,225
It grabbed one of
the calves by the snout

527
00:28:03,307 --> 00:28:04,887
and began to tear at it.

528
00:28:04,975 --> 00:28:07,735
So he pulls out his .357 Magnum

529
00:28:07,853 --> 00:28:10,483
and shoots point-blank.

530
00:28:11,857 --> 00:28:13,477
And the wolf doesn’t react.

531
00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:15,487
It doesn’t appear fazed at all.

532
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,029
So he grabs
his deer hunting rifle

533
00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:21,453
and shoots the wolf
to knock it down.

534
00:28:21,575 --> 00:28:24,995
A piece of fur and flesh
flies off of the wolf.

535
00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:28,118
But, again, completely unfazed,

536
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:30,998
and at this point, the wolf
is kind of trotting off

537
00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:33,344
into the distance, casually.

538
00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:36,590
SHATNER:
Leveling his rifle,
Terry cautiously

539
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,505
followed the wolf’s trail,

540
00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:43,143
only to discover
it had disappeared.

541
00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:45,183
♪ ♪

542
00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:46,845
In the days and weeks
that followed,

543
00:28:46,934 --> 00:28:49,524
the Shermans began to wonder
if what they encountered

544
00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:52,023
was a normal wolf

545
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:53,515
or something more.

546
00:28:53,607 --> 00:28:55,687
(howling)

547
00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:58,066
SKINNER:
In the case of the bulletproof
wolf, what’s interesting

548
00:28:58,153 --> 00:29:00,363
is that wolves are not native
to the state of Utah

549
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,527
for, I think,
the past 100 years or so.

550
00:29:04,493 --> 00:29:08,003
GERHARD:
The werewolf of legend
is described as looking

551
00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:11,291
very much like a regular wolf
except much larger.

552
00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:13,675
And oftentimes, it is said to be

553
00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:15,884
sort of bloodthirsty
and cunning.

554
00:29:16,797 --> 00:29:19,877
We have lots of interesting
legends around the world.

555
00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:21,467
For example, in Russia,
they’re known

556
00:29:21,551 --> 00:29:24,221
as the vârcolac or the bodark.

557
00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:27,144
In France, you have
the loup-garou.

558
00:29:27,224 --> 00:29:32,154
In Scotland, the wulver, and
in South America, the lobizon.

559
00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,899
And even in countries
where you don’t traditionally

560
00:29:33,981 --> 00:29:36,071
have wolves,
you have similar legends.

561
00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:39,439
For example, in India,
there are weretigers.

562
00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:42,818
And in Africa, wereleopards
and werehyenas.

563
00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:46,156
And even in Mexico, werejaguars.

564
00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,253
We have to acknowledge
that the notion

565
00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:51,789
of a shape-shifter,
like a werewolf,

566
00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:53,543
something that combines
the elements

567
00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:57,047
of human and animal together
into one single body,

568
00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:59,760
from a scientific perspective,
is quite troubling.

569
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,130
(growling)

570
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:02,756
But the fact that these legends

571
00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:05,473
are so widespread
is quite intriguing.

572
00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:10,603
SHATNER:
An enormous,
bloodthirsty, cunning wolf

573
00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:13,234
that also happens
to be bulletproof?

574
00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:16,193
Is it possible that
the Shermans encountered

575
00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:18,445
one of the werewolves
that may have been haunting

576
00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,935
Skinwalker Ranch for centuries?

577
00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:25,702
And if so, what physical
evidence is there

578
00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:28,412
to support such
a fantastic notion?

579
00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:31,156
SKINNER:
There has been numerous reports

580
00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,956
of cattle mutilations that occur
not only on Skinwalker Ranch

581
00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:35,961
but the entire Uinta Basin.

582
00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:38,803
GERHARD:
Many of the accounts
of animal mutilations

583
00:30:38,879 --> 00:30:42,129
from Skinwalker Ranch
describe animal carcasses

584
00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:45,125
that have almost been
surgically dissected.

585
00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:49,308
Certain large cats can make
very clean, precise wounds.

586
00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:51,389
Things like mountain lions.

587
00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:54,436
But it is notable that
you have so many accounts

588
00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:59,231
of weird livestock mutilations
from Skinwalker Ranch.

589
00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:03,316
This is very hard to explain
in terms of the natural world.

590
00:31:04,404 --> 00:31:08,454
SHATNER:
With so many accounts
of cattle mutilations

591
00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:12,615
and sightings of unusually large
and ferocious wolves,

592
00:31:12,746 --> 00:31:16,666
it is difficult to escape the
notion that something strange

593
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:19,420
is prowling the grounds
of Skinwalker Ranch.

594
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:22,214
But according
to some scientists,

595
00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:25,007
that doesn’t necessarily mean

596
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,512
that people are seeing
a werewolf.

597
00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,684
One of the really fascinating
theories that relates

598
00:31:30,764 --> 00:31:33,734
to these monstrous wolves
from Skinwalker Ranch

599
00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:37,189
is that these could, in fact,
be surviving representatives

600
00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:40,940
of a species known as
dire wolves, Canis dirus.

601
00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:44,566
These were very robust wolves
that lived

602
00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:48,363
during the Pleistocene epoch
up until about 11,500 years ago,

603
00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:50,658
and they were very prevalent
in North America.

604
00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:55,124
They were certainly much larger
and stockier than modern wolves.

605
00:31:55,205 --> 00:31:57,125
So it’s not beyond
the realm of possibility

606
00:31:57,249 --> 00:32:00,749
that a species from 11,000
years ago may have survived

607
00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:04,956
in small pockets in certain
remote areas of North America.

608
00:32:05,048 --> 00:32:06,628
♪ ♪

609
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:09,388
Is the Skinwalker a rare breed
of animal that simply

610
00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:13,469
hasn’t been identified yet
by mainstream science?

611
00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:18,561
Or could it be exactly
what witnesses insist it is:

612
00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:20,225
a werewolf?

613
00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:22,483
Well, if a shape-shifting canine

614
00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:24,857
sounds too frightening
to be true,

615
00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:29,495
then just wait till you hear
about our next monster.

616
00:32:30,490 --> 00:32:33,910
It’s a flying beast
with glowing red eyes

617
00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:37,584
that has been seen in the skies
above West Virginia,

618
00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:42,174
and it’s known as the Mothman.

619
00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:54,599
SHATNER:
Linda Sigman and her boyfriend

620
00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:58,271
head out for a quiet
nighttime drive.

621
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:01,521
Far beyond the city lights,
they pull over

622
00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:03,775
to do some amateur stargazing.

623
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:09,033
After a few minutes,
they realize they’re not alone.

624
00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:12,571
We got out
and we sat on the car,

625
00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,619
and we’re sitting there talking
for a little bit, and...

626
00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:18,912
I noticed a bright star
over to my right.

627
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,919
And all of a sudden,
it started to get bigger.

628
00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:25,042
And it turned bright red
and started to glow,

629
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:27,378
and like it burst
through the clouds.

630
00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:31,304
And it came right over in front
of the car, and we looked up,

631
00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:35,304
and the object was so big
that we couldn’t see

632
00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,638
the night sky
or the stars or anything.

633
00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:39,394
(engine cranking, sputtering)

634
00:33:39,476 --> 00:33:42,396
When my boyfriend tried to start
the car and it wouldn’t start,

635
00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:45,899
finally got the car started
and we started to pull forward,

636
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:47,324
and I saw him.

637
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,650
And he appeared to be

638
00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,026
a large flying man with wings.

639
00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:54,533
It was the creature

640
00:33:54,616 --> 00:33:56,366
that I perceive to be Mothman.

641
00:33:56,451 --> 00:33:58,701
(screeching)

642
00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:02,497
His wings were back,
and he was anywhere between

643
00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:05,502
eight and nine feet tall, and as
we were going around a turn,

644
00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:09,795
the Mothman flew
and flew into the trees.

645
00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:12,093
I don’t know what else
it could’ve been.

646
00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,681
SHATNER:
The Mothman?

647
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:20,982
A large, red-eyed,
human-sized creature that flies?

648
00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:25,731
But if such a creature exists,
where could it have come from?

649
00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:30,028
GERHARD:
Mothman is one of
the most enigmatic creatures

650
00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:31,860
in the annals
of the unexplained.

651
00:34:31,945 --> 00:34:34,035
And first gained
public notoriety

652
00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:36,454
in November of 1966.

653
00:34:36,533 --> 00:34:39,083
And within a matter
of days and weeks,

654
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,540
there were dozens or
perhaps hundreds of sightings

655
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:44,081
of this creature
around the Point Pleasant area,

656
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,665
causing a mass hysteria
situation.

657
00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:49,003
♪ ♪

658
00:34:49,129 --> 00:34:51,209
Skeptics have attributed
the Mothman sightings

659
00:34:51,298 --> 00:34:54,838
to a misidentification
of giant owls

660
00:34:54,968 --> 00:34:57,138
or even a crane
that is local to the area.

661
00:34:57,262 --> 00:34:58,972
There’s all kinds
of other explanations

662
00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:01,017
that have been given,
but when you interview

663
00:35:01,141 --> 00:35:03,891
the people that actually saw
and experienced this,

664
00:35:03,977 --> 00:35:05,477
they’re not talking
about anything

665
00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,112
that is conventionally known.

666
00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:10,938
DAVID SPINKS:
West Virginia people
are outdoorsy people.

667
00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:13,396
They know all the animals
in the woods.

668
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,816
Most are avid outdoorsmen,
hunters,

669
00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,657
fishermen,
they know the difference

670
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:21,412
between an owl
and a Mothman type creature.

671
00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:25,249
GERHARD:
We have to consider
that the Mothman’s behavior,

672
00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:28,882
which involved chasing cars
at over 100 miles an hour,

673
00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:32,172
taking straight up off
the ground like a helicopter,

674
00:35:32,297 --> 00:35:37,137
none of those would indicate any
type of flesh-and-blood animal.

675
00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:41,178
SHATNER:
Chasing cars at over
100 miles an hour?

676
00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:44,685
If true, then this thing
is no owl.

677
00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,849
At least not a normal one.

678
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:49,266
♪ ♪

679
00:35:49,356 --> 00:35:52,526
But for the residents of
Point Pleasant, West Virginia,

680
00:35:52,609 --> 00:35:55,279
the more pressing question
is whether the Mothman

681
00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:59,532
is a friend or a foe.

682
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:04,037
It’s been seen a lot of times
right before tragedies happen.

683
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,040
That’s the only
common thing we know.

684
00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,374
It seems to show up
at tragedies.

685
00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:12,633
JEFF WAMSLEY:
On December 15, 1967,

686
00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:14,462
the Silver Bridge, which spanned

687
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:17,007
from Point Pleasant
over to Kanauga, Ohio,

688
00:36:17,092 --> 00:36:21,302
collapsed at about 5:00
on a Friday evening.

689
00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:24,638
Uh, it was the worst bridge
disaster in U.S. history.

690
00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,640
46 people died.

691
00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:29,557
I was six when the bridge fell.

692
00:36:29,646 --> 00:36:32,646
And I remember at that time
there were people that claimed

693
00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:35,282
that they seen a large bird
flying back and forth, you know,

694
00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:38,112
across the river
before the bridge fell.

695
00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:41,948
NICK REDFERN:
The official story is
that it was just wear and tear

696
00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:44,335
and the 46 people
who were killed

697
00:36:44,411 --> 00:36:46,541
just didn’t really
stand a chance.

698
00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:50,327
There are rumors
that the Mothman was seen

699
00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,747
around the time
that the bridge collapsed.

700
00:36:53,837 --> 00:36:58,877
So, there was inevitably
talk around town that somehow

701
00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:01,587
the Mothman had either
caused the tragedy

702
00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:03,348
or, in a strange way,

703
00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:06,430
was kind of like a grim reaper
for many people.

704
00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:14,154
GERHARD:
To this day, residents of
Point Pleasant draw a connection

705
00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:16,284
between the Mothman
and this bridge collapse,

706
00:37:16,359 --> 00:37:18,779
perhaps perceiving
the Mothman’s appearance

707
00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:22,532
as some type of premonition
or omen of the tragedy.

708
00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:28,005
JOHN HIPES:
I would say probably
in Point Pleasant it’s 50/50.

709
00:37:28,121 --> 00:37:30,411
50% of the people believe
that Mothman caused

710
00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:33,128
the Silver Bridge tragedy,
and the other 50% believe that

711
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:35,001
he may have been here
as a warning

712
00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:37,128
to get everyone on guard that
something terrible may happen.

713
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:44,640
Is it possible that,
contrary to popular belief,

714
00:37:44,721 --> 00:37:47,221
the Mothman is a force for good?

715
00:37:48,308 --> 00:37:49,678
It’s an interesting notion

716
00:37:49,809 --> 00:37:52,519
and suggests that
some strange creatures

717
00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:55,225
may have more in common
with humans than we realize.

718
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:57,535
For instance,
there have been reports

719
00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:01,150
of a bizarre beast that dwells
in the swamps of South Carolina

720
00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:03,907
and is said to be part man...

721
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,663
...and part reptile.

722
00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:18,715
17-year-old Christopher Davis
stops to change a flat tire

723
00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:22,428
deep in the back roads
of Scape Ore Swamp,

724
00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:25,339
and he quickly senses

725
00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:28,098
that he is not alone.

726
00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:33,443
About the time he’s putting
the jack and the flat tire

727
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,440
into the trunk of his car,

728
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:37,362
he looks up
and he sees something

729
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,780
coming at him in the moonlight.

730
00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:43,113
The closer this thing got,

731
00:38:43,196 --> 00:38:46,566
the more he knew
this wasn’t a person.

732
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:49,239
He looked up and he saw

733
00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:52,289
a greenish-looking figure,

734
00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:55,672
maybe about seven
to eight foot tall

735
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,210
and arms that draped
down to the side

736
00:38:58,294 --> 00:39:01,514
with three claws on each hand.

737
00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:03,009
(chittering)

738
00:39:03,091 --> 00:39:04,841
SHATNER:
Sensing he could be in danger,

739
00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:06,546
Christopher bolts into the car

740
00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:08,298
and drives away
as fast as he can.

741
00:39:08,388 --> 00:39:10,138
-(engine starts)
-(chittering)

742
00:39:10,223 --> 00:39:12,563
Christopher looked
in his rearview mirror,

743
00:39:12,684 --> 00:39:14,564
and could see
this thing pursuing him.

744
00:39:15,395 --> 00:39:17,565
He was completely frightened,

745
00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:21,819
utterly overwhelmed
by what he saw coming at him.

746
00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:24,821
Eventually, it disappeared
into the darkness.

747
00:39:25,864 --> 00:39:29,664
SHATNER: Christopher
got home safe and sound.

748
00:39:29,742 --> 00:39:33,412
But his terrifying story quickly
spread through the media.

749
00:39:33,538 --> 00:39:36,328
Newspapers
and television stations

750
00:39:36,416 --> 00:39:39,496
jumped on the bizarre encounter.

751
00:39:39,586 --> 00:39:42,296
NEWS ANCHOR: Deep in the Scape
Ore Swamp of South Carolina,

752
00:39:42,422 --> 00:39:44,092
there reportedly lives
a creature

753
00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:46,683
that is part man and part beast.

754
00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:48,679
A creature that 17-year-old
Christopher Davis

755
00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,511
claims attacked his car
late one night

756
00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:52,307
on this lonely country road.

757
00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:55,352
Seven feet tall.

758
00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,025
Long arms. Red eyes.

759
00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:02,105
STAMEY:
There was a media frenzy
once the story got out.

760
00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:06,821
There were stories in newspapers
in Korea about the Lizard Man.

761
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,276
And that’s just a tribute

762
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:11,446
to the viral-ness
of the Lizard Man.

763
00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:16,205
SHATNER:
During the media frenzy,
dozens of other eyewitnesses

764
00:40:16,289 --> 00:40:19,919
began contacting
the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

765
00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,091
They all claimed to have had
similar encounters

766
00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:25,130
with a strange,
three-fingered creature

767
00:40:25,214 --> 00:40:29,724
that appeared to be part man
and part reptile.

768
00:40:29,802 --> 00:40:32,722
But rather than
dismiss such reports,

769
00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,635
law enforcement
took them quite seriously.

770
00:40:36,726 --> 00:40:38,266
They had the witnesses come in.

771
00:40:38,353 --> 00:40:39,693
They interviewed them,

772
00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:43,072
in some cases
gave them polygraph tests.

773
00:40:43,149 --> 00:40:45,229
And all of the witnesses

774
00:40:45,318 --> 00:40:48,238
that reported sightings of
the Lizard Man were credible.

775
00:40:48,321 --> 00:40:49,991
(hissing)

776
00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,664
SHATNER:
Could there really be
a reptile species

777
00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:57,964
that evolved to walk upright
like humans?

778
00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:01,579
And if so, is it possible
that there are bizarre

779
00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:05,588
human-and-reptile hybrids
that are still alive today?

780
00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:07,722
STAMEY:
There have been
a number of other sightings

781
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,010
of the Lizard Man
outside of Lee County

782
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:13,005
and Sumter County
in South Carolina.

783
00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:16,217
There’s some in Europe.
There’s some in South Africa.

784
00:41:16,349 --> 00:41:18,729
Every one of them was
about six to eight feet tall

785
00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:20,811
with red eyes.

786
00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:23,475
It always had red eyes.

787
00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:26,694
That is one commonality
that you can’t get over.

788
00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:30,946
And so, it is certainly possible
that the Lizard Man is real.

789
00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:33,704
So, what do you think?

790
00:41:33,783 --> 00:41:36,743
Do we share our planet
with Lizard Men,

791
00:41:36,869 --> 00:41:40,289
otherworldly beasts
and bloodthirsty wolves?

792
00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:42,961
May seem hard to believe.

793
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:44,462
That is, until you
come face-to-face

794
00:41:44,544 --> 00:41:46,804
with one of these
creatures yourself.

795
00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:49,422
So perhaps we should
heed the warnings

796
00:41:49,549 --> 00:41:52,469
of the eyewitnesses,
just in case

797
00:41:52,552 --> 00:41:56,142
there really are dangerous
monsters on our planet that,

798
00:41:56,222 --> 00:42:00,142
for the moment,
remain unexplained.

799
00:42:00,226 --> 00:42:02,646
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